On The Cover What Who Has To Offer The Studio Albums By CAMERON COHICK, Special to the News/Sun-Sentinel Cameron Cohick, a lawyer who lives in Washington, D.C., is a former pop/rock writer for the News/Sun-Sentinel. We`re taking the subway back from The Who concert in Washington, D.C. Me, 32, my brother, 25, and his girlfriend, also 25. and Mom, 54. Along with several hundred other passengers, 16. One member of the teen-age wasteland, looking a bit dazed and wearing a button that says, ``Don`t take drugs, give `em to me,`` looks at Mom, amused, and asks, ``What did you think of the concert?`` ``It was good,`` she says, beaming. Instant camaraderie. ``Yeah,`` he agrees, surprised but pleased by this response ``it was awesome.`` So there you have it. Suddenly, in 1989, The Who is for everybody. Instead of fanning the flames of generational conflict, as in the quoted-to-death My Generation, The Who is now bringing people together, actually bridging the gap. Thanks to AOR radio and MTV, The Who is now undoubtedly more popular than at any other point in its 25-year history. But I had to wonder, pondering my mother`s subway conversation, how much most of these fans really know about The Who. The mass media now presents a compressed and distorted view of the group, focusing on a handful of ``classic`` songs to the exclusion of virtually everything else the group has ever done. With that in mind, the following is presented as a fan`s guide to The Who`s career on record, an attempt to give some idea of the vast dimensions of the iceberg of The Who`s work floating beneath the small tip of radio hits now familiar to most. The original idea for this story was to rank The Who`s top 10 albums, but that presented some problems. For one thing, much of the group`s most interesting work shows up only on live albums or compilations, which are difficult if not impossible to compare to studio albums. In addition, since The Who only has made 10 bona fide studio albums in its career, each with a distinctive personality, ranking the studio albums is nothing more than a matter of personal taste. It`s better just to look at everything -- The Who in the studio, The Who live, The Who compiled